adjacent

[ad·ja·cent]

Adjacent means close to or near something. You may consider the people up and down your street to be neighbors, but your next door neighbor is the person who lives in the house or apartment adjacent to yours.

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Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

Adjective S.
near or close to but not necessarily touching; "lands adjacent to the mountains"; "New York and adjacent cities"

Adjective S.
nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"

Adjective S.
having a common boundary or edge; touching; "abutting lots"; "adjoining rooms"; "Rhode Island has two bordering states; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"; "the side of Germany conterminous with France"; "Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho"; "neighboring


a.
Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

n.
That which is adjacent.


Adjacent

Ad*ja"cent , a. [L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jacre to lie: cf. F. adjacent.] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle. Syn. -- Adjoining; contiguous; near. -- Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc.
I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians.
Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain.

Adjacent

Ad*ja"cent, n. That which is adjacent. [R.] Locke.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

That which is adjacent.

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